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Hikers, mountain bikers, hunters, campers, family picnickers, bird watchers, wildflower enthusiasts, and others have been attracted to Massanutten Mountain ever since the forest service obtained the land in the early 1900s. Thanks to volunteers with the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club who completed a multi-year trail construction project on Massanutten Mountain in 2001, there is now [...]

Dear EarthTalk: Has China been making any progress reducing its output of global warming gases, and/or in tackling other environmental problems? –Bill W., Saugus, MA Decades of rapid-fire development and lack of government oversight has meant that China now faces some serious environmental challenges. According to research by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, China surpassed [...]

Hincapie wins championship in Greenville

Tree-sit enters fourth day at mountaintop removal site

Bob Dylan on your GPS?

Interior Department finds mercury in every fish they test

DMB offers free tunes for going green

Single-speed and fixed-gear bikes are painfully en vogue at the present moment. Skinny jeans. Mustaches. U-locks in back pockets. Take a glance in the urban core of almost any American city and within minutes you’re bound to see a hipster mimicking a bike messenger. Now, I am no innocent here. I have been on a [...]

Watch Kentucky songwriter and cellist Ben Sollee perform “How to See The Sun Rise.”

Watch video of the Brown Wave, one of the trails that’s turning Sumter’s Long Cane Ranger District into a mountain bike destination.

Watch local activist David Ramsey talk about the potential of the Rocky Fork Tract.

Recreational Trails Program scheduled to expire

Caster Semenya, an 18-year-old from South Africa, won the world championships in the 800 meters last week in Berlin. Her time of 1:55.45 was the fifth fastest in world history. Even more impressive is her rags-to-riches story: up until recently, she was an unknown runner from a small, impoverished desert village. For most of her [...]

Our national parks get all the love. You’ve seen the “Save Our Parks” bumper stickers, maybe you’ve even watched the new Ken Burns documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Certainly, you’ve heard the public outcry over the park service’s $9 billion maintenance backlog. We get it: our national parks are awesome. Let’s fix ‘em [...]